At Madame Tussaud's In Victorian Years Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEFE GHIH JKJK| That same first fiddler who leads the orchestra to night | A |
| Here fiddled four decades of years ago | B |
| He bears the same babe like smile of self centred delight | A |
| Same trinket on watch chain same ring on the hand with the bow | C |
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| But his face if regarded is woefully wanner and drier | D |
| And his once dark beard has grown straggling and gray | E |
| Yet a blissful existence he seems to have led with his lyre | F |
| In a trance of his own where no wearing or tearing had sway | E |
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| Mid these wax figures who nothing can do it may seem | G |
| That to do but a little thing counts a great deal | H |
| To be watched by kings councillors queens may be flattering to him | I |
| With their glass eyes longing they too could wake notes that appeal | H |
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| Ah but he played staunchly that fiddler whoever he was | J |
| With the innocent heart and the soul touching string | K |
| May he find the Fair Haven For did he not smile with good cause | J |
| Yes gamuts that graced forty years' flight were not a small thing | K |
Thomas Hardy
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